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| 1) Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary | |||
| (via Gale EBooks)(CSUDH Access Only) You will be searching Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary 34th ed., 4 vols, 2005. | |||
| 2) Scientific Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations | |||
| Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations is a searchable, online resource published as an adjunct to content on Wiley InterScience. | |||
| 3) Journal Abbreviation Sources | |||
| JAS, or Journal Abbreviation Sources, is a registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations. | |||
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| 1) AnyWho (AT&T) | |||
| An Internet equivalent of "yellow pages" & "white pages," notable features include maps, reverse lookups (enter the phone number and it will return the owner's name and address), the ability to perform a "people" search without entering a last name, and a toll-free directory. AnyWho also includes basic business listings. | |||
| 2) Switchboard.com | |||
| An Internet equivalent of "Yellow Pages," for residents and business contact information | |||
| 3) WorldPages.com | |||
| An "all-in-one" service that allows you to find business or personal phone numbers, e-mail addresses, maps and directions, and even the location of products in retail stores. | |||
| 4) Email Addresses (via Telephone Directories on the Web) | |||
| A portal page from Telephone Directories on the Web. This site allows for email address look-ups | |||
| 5) Telephone Directory on the Web | |||
| A portal page which includes Web Telephone Directories from many countries in the world. | |||
| 6) Telephone Area Codes (North American) | |||
| Sorted by Area Code. | |||
| 7) Unites States Postal Service Address and ZIP Code Information | |||
| Find the ZIP+4 code for a given address (or the community name, if you know the ZIP). | |||
| 8) Associations on the Net | |||
| The Internet Public Library's list of associations' home pages, organized by subject, and searchable alphabetically or by keyword. | |||
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| 1) World Almanac | |||
| (via LexisNexis)(CSUDH Access only) Quick facts about any on any subject. | |||
| 2) African American Almanac | |||
| (via Gale EBooks)(CSUDH Access Only) African American Almanac 9th ed., 2003 | |||
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| 1) WorldArt Web Kiosk | |||
| The WorldArt image database allows you to search over 35,000 images from throughout the world. It was created by the faculty, staff and students of the California State University System. | |||
| 2) Smithsonian American Art Museum | |||
| The National Museum of American Art presents information about American art and artists as well as information about the museum and its collections. | |||
| 3) U.S. National Gallery of Art | |||
| The National Gallery of Art has collections of European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and selected works on paper. | |||
| 4) NYPL Digital Gallery | |||
| Provides access to over 337,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts , historical maps , vintage posters , rare prints , and photographs , illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. | |||
| 5) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |||
| "The Museum's collection of 350,000 objects encompasses some of the most rare and important artistic treasures in the world. The collection includes American art, European art, ancient art, Asian, African and Oceanic art, contemporary art, prints, drawings, photographs, musical instruments, and textile and fashion arts. " The database has approximately 30,000 entries to browse or search, most of them with images. Highlights from the nine general divisions of this museums vast collections are presented, as guides to the collections, with historical context. The images may be enlarged by clicking. | |||
| 6) Metropolitan Museum of Art : Timeline of Art History | |||
| "The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection...The basic structure of the Timeline of Art History is both chronological and geographical. Each timeline page includes representative art from the Museum's collection, a chart of time periods, a map of the region, an overview, and a list of key events. The timelines-accompanied by world, and regional maps-provide a linear outline of art history, and allow visitors to compare and contrast art from around the globe at any time in history." | |||
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| 1) Search 91 Biographical Titles in Many Fields | |||
| (via Gale EBooks) (CSUDH Access Only) This link allows you to search 91 biographical titles on many fields, including arts, business, history, literature, ethnic notables, religion, and social sciences, etc. | |||
| 2) American Men and Women of Science | |||
| (via Gale EBooks) (CSUDH Access Only) American Men and Women of Science 22 ed., 8 vols, 2005 | |||
| 3) American Women Writers | |||
| (via Gale EBooks) (CSUDH Access Only)American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present 2nd ed., 4 vols, 2000. | |||
| 4) Biographical Information | |||
| (via LexisNexis) (CSUDH Access Only) About politicians, business executives & more, from biographical sources, people-related news sources and selected biographical stories, obituaries and business related stories covering company executives. | |||
| 5) Business Leader Profiles for Students | |||
| (via Gale EBooks) (CSUDH Access Only) Business Leader Profiles for Students 2 vols, 2002 | |||
| 6) Contemporary Authors | |||
| (also see Literary Criticism section )(via Gale EBooks) (CSUDH Access Only) This allows you to search simultanously all these EBooks: Contemporary Authors 2003-2005 (vol 206-228), Contemporary Authors New Revision Series (vol. 114-117) 2003, Contemporary Novelists 2001, Contemporary Poets , 7th ed., 2001. | |||
| 7) Encyclopedia of World Biography | |||
| (via Gale EBooks) (CSUDH Access Only) Encyclopedia of World Biography 2 ed., 23 vols, 1998. Includes approximately 7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods. | |||
| 8) Notable Sports Figures | |||
| (via Gale EBooks) (CSUDH Access Only) Notable Sports Figures 4 vols, 2004 | |||
| 9) Popular Musicians, Film Makers, Fashion Designers | |||
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This link searches all these Ebooks: - Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 2 vols, 2004. - Contemporary Fashion 2nd ed., 2002 - International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers 4th ed., 4 vols, 2000 |
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| 10) World Biographical Index : Internet Edition 2004 | |||
| Short biographical entries from K.G. Saur's Biographical Archives for more than 3,2 million persons who lived in North and South America, in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. The database is also an index to c. 5 million articles in the Biographical Archives and to 5,700 international biographical reference works of the 16th to 20th century. | |||
| 11) The Nobel Prize Internet Archive | |||
| Nobel Prize Winners in all categories. | |||
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| 1) Book Review Index Online | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) Covers from 1965 - MAR, 2006, a comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. | |||
| 2) Books in Print (includes book reviews) | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) Includes complete record of in-print and forthcoming books published or distributed in the U.S. available to the general public or trade for single or multiple copy purchases. The database contains over 1.2 million books of all kinds: adult, juvenile, popular, scholarly, and reprints. Books In Print (R) With Book Reviews contains 300,000 full-text book reviews that allow the user to evaluate the content of the most recent releases as well as that of backlist titles dating from 1985. | |||
| 3) Bookreporter.com | |||
| Reviews popular books. | |||
| 4) Bookspot.com | |||
| A list of links to over a dozen newspaper and magazine book review sections. Some are limited to current issues, with a fee required to access the archives. | |||
| 5) CNN.com | |||
| Review many popular books. | |||
| 6) New York Review of Books | |||
| Lengthy reviews from the well-respected print publication. The keyword-searchable archive covers 1983 to the present. | |||
| 7) Salon.com | |||
| Reviews recent popular books. | |||
| 8) The Internet Movie Database | |||
| .A big collection of movie information | |||
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| 1) Books in Print (includes book reviews) | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) Includes complete record of in-print and forthcoming books published or distributed in the U.S. available to the general public or trade for single or multiple copy purchases. The database contains over 1.2 million books of all kinds: adult, juvenile, popular, scholarly, and reprints. Books In Print (R) With Book Reviews contains 300,000 full-text book reviews that allow the user to evaluate the content of the most recent releases as well as that of backlist titles dating from 1985. | |||
| 2) Ulrich's Periodical Directory | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) This electronic version of Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, provides information on print and electronic journals. Periodicals are browsable by subject, title and publisher. Simple and advanced search options allow searches by title, publisher and ISSN. Entries include live links to websites for individual journal titles as well as for publishers. | |||
| 3) Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities (a journal article publishing guide) | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) This Directory helps you select those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. | |||
| 4) World Press Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 2 vols, 2003 | |||
| (via Gale EBooks) (CSUDH Access Only) Survey of press and electronic media covers over 200 countries and their systems. Arranged alphabetically by country, entries include overview and background, economic framework, general characteristics, number and type of media, press laws, censorship issues, state-press relations, education and training in journalism, and more. | |||
| 5) JAKE- Full-Text Journal Finder | |||
| JAKE helps you find out where a journals title is available online, either in full-text or citation and abstracts. It also directs you to the journal holdings of a database. It does NOT allow you to search for specific articles -- just journal titles and databases. | |||
| 6) Journal Citation Reports | |||
| Journal Citation Report provides easy access to data that helps you evaluate and compare scholarly journals and their impact factors. The JCR Web uses citation data drawn from over 8,400 journals and 3,000 publishers worldwide. The JCR Web includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and the social sciences. | |||
| 7) Publishers Marketing Association Online | |||
| A large non-profit association whose members are independent publishers of books, audio, video and CDs. Their membership directory can be browsed alphabetically, or search the listings by key word, publishing category, state, or a combination. | |||
| 8) Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America : Booknet | |||
| The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)site specializes in rare and antiquarian books, maps, and prints. It includes: -- locating and contacting ABAA booksekkers; access to early 200 Online bookseller catalogs; ABAA book fairs; and Online book information and research materials. | |||
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| 1) How far is it? | |||
| Enter two cities and the direct distance between them will be calculated. | |||
| 2) * Time Zone Converter & * USA Time Zone Map- 24 HOUR FORMAT | |||
| Calculate the time anywhere in the world. | |||
| 3) Currency (Money) Converter | |||
| Automatically converts currencies between countries using rates from the previous business day. | |||
| 4) Salary Calculator (for relocation use) | |||
| Compares the cost of living among hundreds of U.S. cities. Enter the city you live in, where you're moving, and how much you make, and the calculator will tell you how much you'll need to make in your new city. | |||
| 5) Salary Calculator (for specific area) | |||
| Enter the city you live in, and the calculator will tell you the salary ranges for the kind of job in the area. | |||
| 6) The Inflation Calculator | |||
| Enter an amount of money and two years between 1800 and 2005, and this calculator shows the inflation-adjusted amount for both years. Based on Consumer Price Index figures. | |||
| 7) * Measurement Conversion & * ConvertIt.com | |||
| Web-based measurement conversion calculators. Two Web sites are listed here. Select the site that seems easier for you to use. | |||
| 8) Scientific Calculators | |||
| 9) Mathematical Calculators | |||
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| 1) California Occupational Guides & other Training Information System | |||
| California Occupational Guides are a series of about 300 information sheets covering individual occupations or groups of related occupations. They provide statewide information about job duties, working conditions, employment outlook, wages, benefits, entrance requirements, and training. | |||
| 2) Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 Edition | |||
| The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. | |||
| 3) Occupational Outlook Quarterly | |||
| This periodical provides practical information on jobs and careers. It contains articles covering a wide variety of career and work-related topics, such as new and emerging occupations, training opportunities, and salary trends. | |||
| 4) Wages by Area and Occupation | |||
| Wage data are available by occupation for the Nation, regions, States, and many metropolitan areas. | |||
| 5) Salary Calculator (for a specific area) | |||
| Enter the city you live in, and the calculator will tell you the salary ranges for the kind of job in the area. | |||
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| 1) Citing your Sources | |||
| Developed by the CSUDH Librarians. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader (preferably the latest version) installed on your computer in order to read this file. A free copy may be downloaded from the website. | |||
| 2) Guide to Citation Style Manuals | |||
| This page lists a variety of online style manuals and grammar guides, including such sources as APA, MLA, Chicago, and Legal Citation that show how to cite electronic and print resources in research papers. | |||
| 3) Grammar, Punctuations | |||
| Contains instructions on grammar, punctuations and the practical guides. | |||
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| 1) College Source College Catalogs | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) CollegeSource® Online offers cover-to-cover college catalogs to 2-Year, 4-Year, Graduate Schools. Users can find colleges by: Major; Enrollment; Tuition; Degrees; State; Affiliation, etc. The site also includes a profile of every accredited college in the U.S. along with links to: College Home Pages, International College Home Pages, Career Information, Financial Aid Information. | |||
| 2) College Blue Book 2005 | |||
| CSUDH Access Only) Guide to thousands of 2- and 4-year colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, their programs, degrees, and financial aid sources. Features detailed descriptions, degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education programs. | |||
| 3) Barron's Profiles of American Colleges 2001 | |||
| Universities and colleges in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: including college profiles, degrees, academic, curricula, college application processes, study abroad, etc. | |||
| 4) College Rankings Bibliography | |||
| The list of books and articles are intended to provide background information to help you understand some of the pitfalls of college rankings and to use ranking services in an appropriate manner. | |||
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| 1) Guidance for CSU Policies on Intellectual Property | |||
| A document developed by the Academic Senate of the California State University on March 2003. It is about the "Intellectual Property, Fair Use, and the Unbundling of Ownership Rights for the purpose of Furthering the Mission of Public Higher Education". | |||
| 2) U.S. Copyright Office | |||
| The Copyright Office provides basic information on copyright, information on copyright registration, guides to searching the copyright status of works, and texts of selected copyright office circulars and announcements. A connection to LOCIS, an electronic information system which allows searching of U.S. copyrights, is provided. Also available are information about licensing and royalty payments as well as connections to other Internet sites with information about intellectual property rights. | |||
| 3) U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use | |||
| This section records one of the important limitations of the Copyright Act --- the doctrine of “fair use.” | |||
| 4) Copyright and Fair Use | |||
| Stanford University's Copyright and Fair Use site offers such primary materials as copyright-related statutes, judicial opinions, regulations, and current copyright legislation and treaties. Links to other informational sites on copyright are provided here as well. | |||
| 5) WHEN U.S. Works Pass into the Public Domain? | |||
| A one page chart showing how a copyrighted work is protected and the corresponding time period. | |||
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| 1) Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) | |||
| 2) English Dictionary 4th ed. | |||
| (via NetLibrary) (CSUDH Access Only) How to use the Dctionary: Type your word in the Dictionary and Thesaurus Search search box. | |||
| 3) English to Spanish or Spanish to English Dictionary | |||
| (via NetLibrary) (CSUDH Access Only) How to find the Dictionary: Once you are in the search screen, select the dictionary in the Dictionary and Thesaurus Search search box. | |||
| 4) American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language | |||
| Fourth Edition. Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixe. | |||
| 5) Many Dictionaries and Translators | |||
| Multi-lingual dictionaries and language translators for several dozen languages will be found here ranging from German to English and back to Hawaiian to English to Basque to English... | |||
| 6) A Web of On-line Dictionaries | |||
| You will find linked here "...More than 800 dictionaries of over 150 different languages..." | |||
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| 1) CSUDH Digital Masters Theses | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) This allows you to search citations and abstracts of master theses submitted by CSUDH students and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database, view 24 page previews of theses published after 1996, and download the full text of theses published after 1996. | |||
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| 1) Encyclopædia Britannica Online | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) This comprehensive reference tool can introduce you to any topics. | |||
| 2) Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | |||
| (via EBSCO) (CSUDH Access Only) Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. | |||
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| 1) CSUDH Financial Aid Office | |||
| (for CSUDH students) Through this site, CSUDH students can apply for financial aid, complete student loan counseling interview, download and print forms, search for scholarships, and connect to toroWeb! This site contains vital information for both CSUDH students and parents. | |||
| 2) Research and Funded Projects Office | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) This site provides some funding sources and information about the Office of Research and Funded Projects (ORFP) of CSUDH, which is responsible for all pre-award activities conducted by CSUDH faculty related to external funding for research, training and outreach programs. The office is part of the Division of Academic Affairs reporting to the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. | |||
| 3) Federal Grants Opportunities | |||
| Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant-making agencies. | |||
| 4) Foundation Directory Online | |||
| Foundation Directory Online (updated weekly) provides grantseekers with detailed profiles of up to 80,000 foundations and half a million grants. | |||
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| 1) Health Source - Consumer Edition | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) This full text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. It also provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health, and up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs, etc. | |||
| 2) Alt HealthWatch | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990. | |||
| 3) Clinical Pharmacology | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) Clinical Pharmacology provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. | |||
| 4) Medical Encyclopedia | |||
| The A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. | |||
| 5) Drug Information | |||
| Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMaster, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) , and the USP DI Advice for the Patient, a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) . | |||
| 6) Health Topics | |||
| Start here with over 700 topics on conditions, diseases and wellness | |||
| 7) Body Mass Index Calculator | |||
| Calculating your body mass index (BMI) is a quick way to learn whether or not you're at a healthy weight for your height. | |||
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| 1) MLA International Bibliography | |||
| CSUDH Access Only) MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. Covers from 1963 - present. | |||
| 2) Literature Resource Center on GaleNet | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) Literature Resource Center is rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, and the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. | |||
| 3) Contemporary Authors | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) This allows you to search simultanously all these EBooks: Contemporary Authors 2003-2005 (vol 206-228), Contemporary Authors New Revision Series (vol. 114-117) 2003, Contemporary Novelists 2001, Contemporary Poets , 7th ed., 2001. | |||
| 4) Modern American Literature & World Literature | |||
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(CSUDH Access Only) Modern American Literature, 5th ed., 3 vols, 1999: Contains excerpts by noted critics on 489 of significant American authors of the twentieth century. Reference Guide to World Literaturem, 3rd ed., 2 vols, 2003: Contains biographical and critical essays on authors from throughout the world. |
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| 5) Encyclopedia of Literature | |||
| (via GaleNet)(CSUDH Access Only) Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature includes over 10,000 articles. Type in a term, name, literary time period, or genre to get exact results, or type in a few letters of a term to get a list of possible matches. | |||
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| 1) Map Collection (Perry-Castañeda Library) | |||
| World Maps, Political Maps, Standard Time Zones of the World, World City Maps, Historical Maps, Gross Domestic Product Maps, Ocean Currents and Sea Ice, etc. in PDF format. | |||
| 2) Online Maps of Current Interest | |||
| Literature Resource Center is rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, and the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. | |||
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| 1) Cities, Countries, and Their Cultues of the World | |||
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This link allows you to search all these titles simultaneously: - Cities of the World, 6th ed., 4 vols, 2002 A compilation of current information on cultural, geographic, and political conditions in 193 countries and their cities covering six continents, based on the Department of State's Post Reports. Maps and photos of many cities included. - Countries and Their Cultures, 4 vols, 2001 Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information. - Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, 11th ed., 6 vols, 2004 Presents information on 200 countries and dependencies from around the world. Entries discuss topics in detail, from banking and securities to climate, from government data to demographic statistics. Also includes biographical essays on national leaders. |
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| 2) CountryWatch | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) Includes the following CountryWatch products: Country ReviewTM: comprehensive reports covering demographic, political, economic, social, corporate, cultural, and environmental information on each of the 192 countries of the world. | |||
| 3) Country Profiles | |||
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This allows you to select and search these two titles: - CIA World Factbook: prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials. - Walden Country Reports: include the following categories of information: key facts, introduction, political structure, political situation, membership of international organizations, industry, banking and finance, companies, investment, stock exchange, natural resources, energy, agriculture, transport, communications and the media, armed forces, education, health and welfare, geography and climate, visitors'' guide, useful business addresses. |
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| 4) Geography & Economies of Nations of the World | |||
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This link allows you to select or search these two titles: - Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., 2003: describes the physical geography of every nation and dependency on Earth. Physical features, climate, and vegetation are discussed in detail using a consistent set of rubrics. A World Rankings appendix includes tables of ranking major features of the Earth, such as largest river by length and volume, tallest mountains by continent, and deepest oceans. - Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, 4 vols, 2002: provides the current and historical economic development of 198 foreign nations. Arranged by country within broad geographic regions, this title provides each country's economic environment, statistics on the country's current economic conditions, trends, and key demographics of the nation's citizens. |
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| 5) Country Studies / Area Handbooks | |||
| Search or browse studies of 91 countries prepared by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists for the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. The studies were originally published in print. Note the omission of certain countries such as France. | |||
| 6) Foreign Government Resources on the Web | |||
| Created by the University of Michigan Documents Center, this site links to hundreds of diplomatic, legal and other pages for all regions of the world. | |||
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| 1) Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Database, 1988 - current) | |||
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(CSUDH Access Only) Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. It offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news. Coverage: 1985-current |
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| 2) Historical Los Angeles Times (1882 - 1985) | |||
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(CSUDH Access Only) The Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Coverage: Dec. 4, 1881 - Dec. 31, 1985 |
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| 3) Newspapers (ProQuest Database, 1988 - current)) | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) It is full-text, including 600 major U.S. National, local and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London. To name some of the important titles: Advocate, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, Greenwich Time, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, Morning Call, Newsday, Orlando Sentinel, Sun Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale), The Sun, Baltimore, etc. Most newspapers covers full-text for the last few years. | |||
| 4) LEXIS-NEXIS Newspapers (covers last 10 years news) | |||
| (via LexisNexis)(CSUDH Access Only) It is full-text, including General news. Today's news, U.S. news, World news, Local news, News wires, News transcripts, Arts & sports news, Non-English language news, Business news, Legal news, University news, Medical news. | |||
| 5) U. S. News Paper Archives on the Web | |||
| Newspaper links on this page are sorted by State. Some newspapers charge for full-text articles. | |||
| 6) NewsDirectory.com | |||
| Find Web sites of over 17,000 paper-printed publications. Browse newspapers, magazines and computer publications | |||
| 7) Crayon's News Sources | |||
| Listing of news sources available from this free, custom news service; categories include: 1. U.S. news, ranging from the NPR Newscast to Fox News to U-Wire College News 2. Canadian news newspapers, news sources 3. Regional and local news, arranged state-by-state with more than 15 listed for California 4. World news big listing (examples: Asahi news from Japan, China News Digest, and the St. Petersburg Times (Russia) 5. Politics 6. Editorials and Opinion listed by journalist and including Dave Barry, William F. Buckley, Jr., Jon Carroll... 7. Weather conditions and forecasts 8. Business 9. Information and technology 10. Science and researchas Today at NASA and Earth & Sky 11. Religion news 12. Health and fitness 13. Arts and entertainment 14. Sports news 15. Snippets, as quote or word of the day, lottery results, today in history 16. Funny pages; big collection of comic strips 17. Tabloid section 18. New and Cool Web Sites ranging from Netwatch, Point Com.'s New Reviews |
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| 1) Polls & Surveys | |||
| (via LexisNexis) (CSUDH Access Only) The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (RPOLL) is the comprehensive full-text collection of public opinion in the United States. It covers the full spectrum of publicinterest including politics and government, public institutions, internationalrelations, business, social affairs and consumer behavior and preferences. The file includes actual data from a wide variety of sources in opinion pollingsuch as Gallup, Harris, Roper; ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC; Los Angeles Times, NewYork Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal. | |||
| 2) Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (iPOLL database, etc.) | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) iPOLL database is an up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion. The database includes data survey results from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more. iPOLL does not include state samples or foreign samples (see Catalog of Holdings). However, surveys of these populations are available from the Roper Center at (860)486-444. Time coverage: from 1935 to present, and updated daily. | |||
| 3) ICPSR Direct: (Supported by the Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research) | |||
| (CSUDH Access Only) ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. | |||
| 4) Field Polls | |||
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(Please use computers NOT in the CSUDH Library to access) (CSUDH Access Only)
Search Field (California) Polls, 1979-Latest Release, Questions and Answers.
Your browser must be configured properly in order to access the Field Polls data at UC Berkeley. The first requirement is that your browser be set to use passive FTP: 1. Go to Tools Internet Options and select the Advanced tab. 2. Scroll down to the “Use Passive FTP (for firewall and DSL modem compatibility)” option and make sure that it is checked. Access instruction: 1. Click open the link above. 2. Click the "Data" link on the left side of the Data homepage. 3. Choose "CSU Only/Field Polls" link on the FTP navigation column on the left side of the Data page. You will see a page with the FTP navigation column, a center column named "SEARCH UCSD's CALPOLL INDEX" and a "RETRIEVE DATA" column. Depending on how your browser is set up, the RETRIEVE DATA column will display a set of folders or an FTP directory listing with links to the folders. 4. Use the SEARCH column to locate a poll of interest to you by entering the appropriate keywords. When you find a study you'd like to download, note its number. Do not click the | |||
